Quotes About Adventure

The time will come when we permit more people in space.

After being once in space, I was keen to go back there. But it didn't happen.

I think the more people that can go up to space and look back is great, but it's not just this overview and look back effect. There's also a lot of concrete gains from getting more people up in space.

Man must be in space - that is what we are destined for. There is nothing else that we can do.

Would I like to go into space? No. Maybe I'd do it when I'm old and have done everything else on this planet.

I've always loved airplanes and flight. The space program was really important to me as a kid. I still have a photo of Armstrong and Aldrin on the moon in my living room.

I'm really hopeful about the future of space exploration and human spaceflight. Civilization as we know it has been defined by exploration. You know, we need to go off and find out what's around the next corner and what's just beyond what we already know. It's part of our being; it's part of our moral fiber to go off and explore.

In the 19th Century people were looking for the Northwest Passage. Ships were lost and brave people were killed, but that doesn't mean we never went back to that part of the world again, and I consider it the same in space exploration.

Is manned space exploration important? Yes - not least because it simply works much better than sending robots.

If you want a nation to have space exploration ambitions, you've got to send humans.

People make their own fates, and if enough of us make our fate to be space explorers, perhaps we can actually get some space exploration done.

I have dedicated my life to answering the great scientific questions of our time and to the incredible adventure of space exploration.

It's so astounding the amount of sacrifice the astronauts have to go through to do what they do and all the science involved in space exploration.

When I was in kindergarten, I remember looking at picture books of the space shuttle.

What SF author or fan isn't interested in human space travel? I've yet to meet one.

There's going to be space travel at some point.

Planet colonization is not a short term concern of mine. The physical limitations of space travel render it low on the list for me.

I believe the biggest impediment we have right now with going to Mars is public commitment. More people need to see themselves as a part of space travel; we need to see more inclusiveness.

I think that, a lot of times, people have this idea that the solar system is entirely explored, that we have sent spacecraft to every planet, we've taken beautiful pictures of everything, and that it's kind of done.

Spaceflight, especially in the Mercury spacecraft, clearly wasn't going to be much like flying an airplane.

So with 'Ascent,' one of the things I wanted to do was not make it too remote from the reader, for it to be engaged with the human side and not just to be about the cold metal of planes and spacecraft.

Once you get into the spacecraft, you're on your way, you've got a mission, you're focused, and it's really exciting.

You could see the flames and the outer skin of the spacecraft glowing; and burning, baseball-size chunks flying off behind us. It was an eerie feeling, like being a gnat inside a blowtorch flame.

Being first outside the spacecraft would bring much more responsibility, and I really wasn't looking for that.